NOTES:A petard was a bell-shaped bomb used to breach a door or a wall. Now that we have advanced to ICBMs, this low-tech word survives in the phrase "to hoist by one's own petard" meaning "to have one's scheme backfire". The idiom was popularized by Shakespeare in his play Hamlet. Hamlet, having turned the tables on those tasked with killing him, says:For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard

PETCARD - a cardboard cutout getwell card of a cute fluffy dog who looks like your own dog when he was just a little puppy given to you as you lie on a less-than-hospitable bed in pain amongst an over-abundance of incompetent doctoring.

PRONUNCIATION:(DRUTH-uhrz) MEANING:noun: One's own way; preference. ETYMOLOGY:Plural of druther, contraction of ’d rather, as in "I/he/etc. would rather ..." Earliest documented use: 1895.-----------------------------------------------------U to A DRATHERS - spoken/sung lyrics of Rex Harrison's opening song in the 1959 English version of the Broadway play "Li'l Abner".

If I had my drathers,I'd drather have my drathersThan work any wheres at allIt ain't that I hates it,I often contemplates itwhile watchin' the rain drops fall

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